Director of Acquisitions

Confidential

Miami, Florida

The primary responsibility of the Director of Acquisitions is to identify new investment opportunities for the company and to play a key role evaluating and underwriting these transactions under the direction of a senior deal professional. The company is a private real estate investment trust (REIT) that acquires, manages, repositions and develops retail assets and mixed-use assets in various locations throughout the U.S. and in select international markets. This position entails a very high level of responsibility for an experienced, extremely entrepreneurial candidate who will take the initiative and requires minimal daily supervision.

Job Responsibilities:

Develop an extensive network of third-party intermediaries, property owners, developers, economic development officials and other industry professionals through cold calling, direct meetings and attendance at trade shows/conferences in order to generate deal flow (preferably proprietary and off-market);

Identify, research, present and pursue retail and mixed-use opportunities of between $15 million and $100+ million that have a “value-add” component and therefore the potential to achieve significant returns;

Conduct extensive market research within Miami, FL to understand and anticipate demographic trends/shifts, identify under-retailed areas and pursue opportunities to leverage relationships with major national retailers,

Work closely with the Acquisitions Team to underwrite and consummate deals;

Interface with in-house Development and Leasing teams to gather data on projected construction/redevelopment costs, leasing assumptions and other information for use in developing financial models and generating returns scenarios.